At deviantART, we always strive to keep your user experience safe so you’re provided with an environment in which you’re comfortable to create and grow. As part of our ongoing effort to keep your user experience protected, we’ve been documenting ways to encourage awareness and ensure a safer deviantART — first in April and August of 2011, and again in January of this year.

In 2011, deviantART became a member of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA), an overarching group of companies dedicated to preventing and fighting malicious activities that occur on the Web. This was one of many steps taken as a means of ensuring your safety and privacy while on deviantART, and doing so placed deviantART alongside Microsoft, PayPal, Twitter, and other leading companies working to make your Internet experience free of malicious activity.

We are pleased to announce that this year, deviantART has been nominated to the Online Trust Honor Roll. This nomination came from the analysis of deviantART’s Privacy Policy, required email authentication, and several other factors. The 2012 OTA report examined over 1,200 domains and privacy policies, approximately 3,600 Web pages, and over 500 million emails. In addition, public records were analyzed for recent data breach incidents and settlements with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Of the companies evaluated, less than 30% qualified for an Honor Roll nomination.

We consider this an honor and are grateful toward the OTA for the recognition of our efforts. In previous years, many of the nominees were Fortune 500 companies, putting deviantART among some of the biggest and most successful businesses in the world, with regard to safety and security practices. If you would like to view the full list of 2012 Honor Roll recipients, they can be found on the OTA website.

Your protection continues to be a priority, and we will keep doing our best to ensure that your user experience on deviantART remains a safe one.

Yeah, good, i have not seen any bad ads or pop up malicious ads from deviation pages in sooo long. The staff of dA should ask US deviants what we want to applaud dA for. Because mostly we just end up complaining when things are wrong, but there is no forum in which to applaud good things on dA. I dA. And i'm so glad i have so little, if anything, to complain about regarding dA at the moment

If the site was so "trustworthy" then why are there still constant art thieves, people who harass others for the sake of it and are reported, but NOTHING is ever done about it in my personal experience with malicious activities. Instead all the staff has said is to "block and ignore." A few others and myself have done that for almost a YEAR without attacking back to these people in any way whatsoever, and yet these people continue to come back on alt accounts. Good going there guys. Yeah. Totally safe and trustworthy in your actions there staff. Why not actually do something that pertains to your jobs instead of constantly updating dA with petty, crappy 'features?' What about the tons of rule breaking uploads a day that are passed, as this can be said for rule breaking groups made as well? Nothing is ever done about some of the more major issues around here, and if they ever are, it's done waaaaay too late.

Where the hell this "online trust alliance" got their info from for dA so far is beyond me.

What the hell your talking about and what the OTA is about is two different things. Your so called 'issues' *which I do agree the art theft is getting out of hand* is not what OTA is about. OTA is about identity theft and online account hacking. DA is being recognized for the work they do to insure that our real life identity is staying safe and secured. Along with those of us that do pay for our accounts we can be reassured that what credit/debit card info is being typed in is not being leaked out.

Stuff like this is not easy to do for there are always some hacker out there trying to make easy money off of someone that earned it the hard way.

You know this problem affects even the biggest providers like doubleclick right? Who are owned by Google. The providers take all appropriate measures to prevent bad ads from being put up by them, but it's impossible to completely stop them.

Also [link] read the bottom that lists updates. We've stop using ad providers before because of constant bad ads.

That's what I said ages ago, but all I got was a mod telling me that "that's not how things work". inb4 said mod sees this and gets mad: That obviously isn't a direct quote but is what the entire conversation boiled down to.

I swear. This is almost hypocritical.

*Get honored for preventing and fighting malicious activity online*Takes the laziest approach ever to do it

I hear that's a popular activity amongst certain portions of the deviantArt community. lol

Whyever you were doing it, you brought up a completely valid point. They're so safe they're so safe and yet they're not.

Sure they may have protections on the backside of everything to prevent people from hacking them to get at your information, but they're not doing very much to prevent people from putting stuff on your computer to do it for them.